At Au Lutin Qui Bouffe, patrons were photographed pulling the tail of a beribboned piglet that was wheeled on a cart from table to table.

Pictorial postcards were authorized by the Canadian post office in 1903, and the next 25 years became known to postcard collectors as the Golden Age.

Wade Davis recalls being taught photography by Tod Papageorge: "he was an inspired teacher, in good measure because he had no interest in soliciting student opinion about anything."